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First of two posts on Clemens coverage, and in this one, we’ll simply highlight reaction. (One point and one question: Brian McNamee said he injected Andy Pettitte, Chuck Knoblauch, Roger Clemens and Debbie Clemens with HGH. Three confirmed as much. It’d be surprising to not see that fact in every column in the country. What investigative journalist is going to look into Rocket’s campaign contributions this year?)

Patrick Reusse finds perhaps the greatest paragraph ever written about Roger Clemens: “If Clemens had not once been able to consistently throw a baseball 95 miles per hour past men with bats in their hands, he would be wearing bib overalls and sitting on a milk crate at the open end of a trailer somewhere, brushing his tooth, while shooing away flies from his head,” Barnacle wrote. “The man is a complete dope.” Just … wow. (Star Tribune)

This, we can mostly agree with: McNamee is “part rat and part dirt bag who fancies himself as Serpico” and Clemens is an “excuse-making, selfish jerk who won’t admit he made a mistake.” Except we’d replace ‘mistake’ with ‘cheated.’ (Sportsline)

Body language specialists - Clemens was lying! (ESPN)

Very appropriate opening line, apropos of the setting: Roger Clemens’ house of lies. (Yahoo)

Disagree with the assertion that Mark McGwire “drowned” in the same seat three years ago. Big Red isn’t universally-hated. Out of sight, out of mind. (ESPN)

“He looked not like a hero, not like an icon, not like a legend, but instead like a guy who would say anything to try to save his reputation.” Gold. (USA Today)

Fantastic line about Nannygate: “Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) implied with his questioning that Clemens and his snake-oil people appeared to have interfered with a witness, and Clemens’s inability to answer his questions directly — and his lawyers’ meltdown behind him — ended up hurting Clemens and bolstering McNamee.” (Washington Post)

Things misremembered: “Roger can’t answer a question to save his life, and he was in way over his head intellectually (which is surprising considering how dumb most of the Republicans looked).” (Cavman Considers)